This is a setting of the Lorica of St Patrick to the traditional Irish folk tune “Garten” arranged by Gerard Gillen. I think it lovely and liturgically useful to boot.
The text is here with more verses than the three in VAO. You can listen to a snippet and purchase the sheet music from WLP. An arrangement in the public domain is at musicasacra.
My backing is Irish and spirited.
As is this version:
This is more sedate but still nice:
This is definitely not a Lenten song but it is a gospel acclamation that Yola’s parish used as an entrance hymn before Lent started. It is by Bernadette Farrell and is part of the Mass of Hope.
The text is in the sample available at OCP where you can purchase the sheet music for download. You an hear a snippet here.
This is a setting of Psalm 137 and coincidentally comes up in a couple of weeks (4th week of Lent Year B). It is by Paul A. Tate and has a singable refrain for the assembly and good verses for the cantors to proclaim.
You can hear a snippet, read the text in the sample pages and buy the sheet music at WLP. You can hear the whole song here with all its harmonies. If you are using the guitar edition of Voices As One like me, there are chords missing on the bottom line of the second page of the music – G(add2) & E/G#.
Mary mentioned this as a song relatively unknown in Australia but popular in Ireland. The text is by John Glynn and the music Colin Murphy. It appears popular for funerals.
The text is here. Is it too poetic or too simple or too sentimental for Australian tastes? I think it’s fine but then I’m wet.
The sheet music can be purchased for download at Kevin Mayhew.
There are lots of versions on Youtube:
They go on and on but this one from the Hillsborough Memorial service is special.
This is another song by the prolific Ed Bolduc, which has liturgical uses (a very Eucharistic text) but the tune is really just too fiddly for the assembly.
This talented cantor is having a red hot go and the lyrics to the chorus are here, but you can see how it is a solo vehicle. There is a snippet of Karen Bolduc’s version here.
If you haven’t got Voices As One but are a WLP subscriber you can download the sheet music from here.
My backing is passing strange:
Entrance: Praise to You O Christ Our Saviour (Farrell) AOV 1/28
Psalm 116 ( O’Brien)
I will walk in the presence of the Lord,
In the land of the living.
Gifts: Heal Me O God (Norbet) AOV 2/52
Communion: I am the Bread of Life (Toolan) AOV 1/49
Lord, to Whom Shall We Go? (Herry) AOV 1/6
Recessional: Lord, the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59
This song was used at Yola’s parish while I was away in January. The lovely music is by Bernadette Farrell and the text by Owen Alstott is such a lovely prayer for Lent I thought I’d blog it.
The song has many changes in time signature and I thought it would be impossible but I think the composer has pulled it off as I don’t think it would take long to get used to. In other words it sounds less complicated than it looks on the page.
The sheet music can be purchased for download at OCP where there is a snippet to listen to and a sample of the sheet music for the text.
I noticed that Yola’s parish were using this Hillsong song by Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding in their liturgies. It is a typical P&W slow song that builds to an noisy frenzy if desired. The title sounds like awkward use of the English language to me and you wonder if they just needed a rhyme for grave. It is principally a solo vehicle but there are enough repeats and sing-along sections for assembly to participate.
The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased for download at various sites on the net including musicnotes.
Michael W Smith’s cover is here.
I believe this is Hillsong.
Other covers:
This is pretty much a choir only piece by Joe Mattingly of the Newman Singers in that the tune for each verse gets progressively more difficult and would be unlikely to be easily used by an assembly. Even the refrain has a fair bit of syncopation so I’ll leave this to the trained or professional to swing it out with their big band arrangement.
This is one of the songs with only this at the WLP site…
| Topic: | Petition; Trust |
| Liturgical Season: | Lent |
| Scripture: | Psalm 091 |
… so you can’t download it from there without their licence, but you may be able to buy the sheet music at WLP and at sheetmusicplus. The lyrics are nowhere to be found on the net.
This is a lovely hymn written by David Evans in the 1980s but has a classic singable tune. I’ve never heard it before but apparently it is a favourite in many places.
The text and some biographical information are at Hymnary. The song is the basis of an extended reflection here. The sheet music can be purchased at several online sellers including sheetmusicplus.
Lots of versions in various styles:
